Trump says U.S. used ‘secret weapon’ on Madura raid in Venezuela

 

U.S.  When the United States captured Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump claimed that a covert weapon he referred to as "The Discombobulator" was used to disable Venezuelan equipment. Additionally, Trump reiterated his threat to launch land-based military strikes against Mexican drug cartels. The remarks were made by Trump during an interview with the New York Post on Friday. The Republican president was commenting on reports that the U.S. had a pulsed energy weapon and said, “The Discombobulator.  I am not permitted to discuss it. He said the weapon made Venezuelan equipment “not work.”

Their rockets never went off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off,” Trump said in the interview.  When we entered, they pressed buttons, but nothing happened. They were all set for us.”

Trump had previously said when describing the raid on Maduro’s compound that the U.S. had turned off “almost all of the lights in Caracas,” but he didn’t detail how they accomplished that.

In addition, the president stated that the administration will continue its military campaign against drug cartels and may expand it from South America into North America. "We know where they go. We know everything about them.  We know where they live. Trump stated, "We know everything about them." "We're going after the cartels," he said.

Trump responded, "Could be anywhere," when asked if the strikes could occur in Mexico or Central America. First of its kind since Maduro's capture, the United States struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday. It marks at least 36 known strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since early September that have killed at least 117 people.

 Trump said the U.S. has removed the oil aboard seven oil tankers connected to Venezuela that it has seized but wouldn’t reveal where the ships are now.

 “I’m not allowed to tell you,” Trump said.  However, to put it another way, they do not possess any oil. We acquire the oil.

The president also stated during the interview that he was still debating where to hang the Nobel Peace Prize presented to Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado earlier this month. In the Oval Office, the prize was leaning against a statue.

Additionally, Trump stated to the newspaper that the United States would acquire ownership of the land on which American bases are situated as part of the framework of an Arctic security agreement he reached with NATO chief Mark Rutte. “We’ll have everything we want,” Trump said.  "We are having some interesting conversations." A lot of the potential deal is still a mystery. Denmark and Greenland's leaders have stated that the sovereignty of the island cannot be compromised, and a NATO spokesperson claims that Rutte did not propose any "compromise to sovereignty" during his conversations with Trump.

The president declared that he would not attend the Super Bowl and described Green Day and Bad Bunny's performance as a "terrible choice." He went to the Super Bowl in New Orleans last year.